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In 1717, Roushie Prince Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky landit an established a secret fortifee'd settlement on this location, whaur the dry bed o a umwhile mooth o the Amu-Darya River ance emptied intae the Caspian Sea. His intent wis tae mairch an airmy up this dry riverbed an conquer the Khanate o Khiva. The expedition failed, an the Roushies abandoned the settlement for ower 150 years.

Hotel "Serdar" in the Avaza tourist zone

In 1869, the Roushies made a seicont an latest attempt. They named their fort Krasnovodsk (Красноводск), which is the Roushie version o the oreeginal name, Kyzyl-Su (Red Water). Krasnovodsk wis Imperial Roushie's base o operations against Khiva an Bukhara, an the nomadic Turkmen tribes. It fell tae the Red Airmy in Februar 1920.